The Great Trek of the Russian Mennonites to Central Asia, 1880-1884, Fred Richard Belk, 1976

Men- noniten aus Preussen, 1788-1870," Auslandsdeutsche Volksforschung, Vol. II (1938), pp. 50-60; D. G. Rempel, ‘“The Mennonite Migration to New Russia (1787-1870), MOR, Vol. IX, No. 2 (April, 1935), pp. 71-84. 2. Some of the standard works on Mennonite history are John Horsch, Mennonites in Europe (Scottdale, Pennsylvania: Mennonite Publishing House, 1950); C. Henry Smith, The Story of the Mennonites (4th ed., rev. by Cornelius Krahn, North Newton, Kansas: Mennonite Publication Office, 1957); Stephen Hirzel, Heimliche Kirche (Ham- burg: Friederich Wittig Verlag, n.p.); Edmond Diebold, Folge dem Licht (Zurich: Gott- helf Verlag, 1945), and J. C. Wenger, Glimpses of Mennonite History and Doctrine (Scott- dale, Mennonite Publishing House, 1947. ) 3. Franz Bartsch, Unser Auszug nach Mittelasien (Vol. V in Historische Schriften- reihe des Echo-Verlags) (North Kildonan, Manitoba, 1948), pp. 1-6. 4. Aaron Klaus, Unsere Kolonien: Studien und Materialien zur Geschichte und Sta- tistik der auslandischen Kolontsation in Russland, trans. by J. Tows (Odessa: Odessaer Zeitung, 1887), p. 163; John B. Toews, “The Social Structure of the Russian Men- nonites,’ Mennonite Life, Vol. XXVI, No. 3 (July, 1971), pp. 133-137. 5. Franz Haxthausen, Studien iiber die innern Zusténde, das Volksleben und ins- besondere die landlichen Einrichtungen Russlands (2 vols., London: priv. pub., 1847, 1952), I, pp. 420-432. Also see D. H. Epp, Johann Cornies (Berdyansk: priv. pub., 1909), pp. 25-100; and Walter Kuhn, “Cultural Achievements of the Chortitza Menno- nites,” Mennonite Life, Vol. III (July, 1948), p. 35. 6. G. E. Reimer and G. R. Gaeddert, Exiled by the Czar: Cornelius Jansen and the Great Mennonite Migration, 1874 (North Newton: Mennonite Publication Office, 1956), pp. 43-65. 7. Wenger, Glimpses of Mennonite History, p. 97; Johannes Janzen, “The Men- nonite Colony in Turkestan,” MOR, Vol. IV, No. 4 (October, 1930), p. 282. 8. Bartsch, Unser Auszug, pp. 6, 8-9, 18-19; Jansen, “The Mennonite Colony in Turkestan,” p. 282; Jacob Jantzen, “Memories of Our Journey to Asia” (mimeographed account, trans. by Mrs. Margaret Horn with an Introduction by Harold H. Jantzen, Cordell, Oklahoma, 1958, 32 pp., MHLA), p. 4; Karl Stumpp, “Deutsche Siedlungen in Mittelasien und im Amiirgebiet,” Heimdtbuch der Deutschen aus Russland (1964), 15; and Wenger, Glimpses of Mennonite History, p. 98. 9. Stumpp, HB (1964), p. 14. For one of the best summations of this journey in English see Douglas Hale, ‘‘From Central Asia to America,’ Mennonite Life, Vol. XXV, No. 3 (July, 1970), pp. 133-138. Notes 197 10. C. H. Smith, The Coming of the Russian Mennonites: An Episode in the Set- tling of the Last Frontter, 1874-1884 (Berne, Indiana: Mennonite Book Concern, 1927), p. 129. , 11. See for example: C. H. Smith, The Story of the Russian Mennonites, p. 4; and Cornelius J. Dyck, ed., An Introduction to Mennonite History (Scottdale, Pennsyl-